Senior Staff Software Engineer, Perception

Role overview

Lead the design and production deployment of perception systems for autonomous ground operations. The position spans the perception pipeline, from sensing and data preparation through object detection and tracking, and includes shaping the system roadmap and developing evaluation capabilities. It also involves mentoring less experienced engineers and leading work across teams.

Responsibilities - Architect 3D object detection models, including approaches that combine camera, LiDAR, and radar inputs. - Build and maintain pipelines for collecting data and measuring model performance. - Develop a multimodal dataset for model training and evaluation. - Train, deploy, and monitor 2D and 3D detection models in production. - Define and execute the perception system roadmap. - Mentor junior engineers and lead cross-functional projects to address technical gaps.

Requirements - Master’s or PhD in computer science, robotics, deep learning, or a related field. - At least seven years of focused experience architecting and deploying 2D or 3D object detection models. - Experience across the perception stack, including sensing, preprocessing, detection, and tracking. - Proficiency in Python. - Ability to identify system gaps and lead projects involving multiple functions.

Nice to have

A PhD, broad autonomous vehicle systems knowledge, and experience architecting detection and tracking systems are preferred. Research publications at major computer vision, robotics, or AI conferences are also valued.